Re: Entity Modeler

From: Chuck Hill (chil..lobal-village.net)
Date: Sun Aug 06 2006 - 16:40:18 EDT

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    Amen.

    On Aug 6, 2006, at 11:33 AM, Ken Anderson wrote:

    > Heck - I look forward to buying him drinks!
    >
    > On Aug 5, 2006, at 10:27 PM, Watkins, Garry wrote:
    >
    >>
    >> Thanks Mike for all of the outstanding work that you have done. I
    >> look
    >> forward to meeting you at WWDC.
    >>
    >> Garry
    >>
    >> -----Original Message-----
    >> From: Mike Schrag [mailto:mschra..dimension.com]
    >> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 9:25 PM
    >> To: woproject-de..bjectstyle.org
    >> Subject: Entity Modeler
    >>
    >> I'm calling the latest and greatest Entity Modeler "1.0 beta". It
    >> appears to be working on all the models I've been running it with.
    >> Here's the rundown on what it can do:
    >>
    >> * Read/Write EOModel bundles including EOModelGroup, EOModel,
    >> EOEntity,
    >> EOAttribute, EORelationship, EOJoin, EOFetchSpecification,
    >> EOQualifier,
    >> EOSortOrdering, EOStoredProcedure, EOArgument (i.e.
    >> EOAttribute on a stored procedure), and User Info
    >> * Editors for all of the above, a new EOModeler Perspective, and
    >> custom
    >> Outline support for all the EOModel elements
    >> * Cut/Copy/Paste support for all of the above
    >> * NSBundle-style discovery of EOModels that are "reachable" by your
    >> project for autoloading of EOModelGroups
    >> * Flattened relationships and attributes + UI (which includes a KVC
    >> implementation)
    >> * Prototypes, including support for writing models with missing/
    >> unresolved prototypes without destroying your model (and column name
    >> doesn't disappear when you change an attribute's prototype)
    >> * Model verifier that finds possible model errors (runs
    >> automatically at
    >> startup and save, but can be run on-demand by an action as well)
    >> * Inheritance "helper" that supports Horizontal, Vertical, and
    >> Single-
    >> Table
    >> * Changing the database in your connection dictionary's URL
    >> invalidates
    >> and reloads prototypes on-the-fly so that datatypes are properly
    >> reflected for the new prototypes
    >> * .eomodelgroup files (+ creation wizard) for overriding NSBundle
    >> model
    >> resolution (for defining custom model groups)
    >> * "Create EOGenerator File" action on .eomodeld that autogenerates an
    >> EOGenerator .eogen file by looking up all referenced EOModels
    >> * Auto-create .eogen files in EOModel creation wizard
    >> * Automatic execution of EOGenerator when models change
    >> * Diff-stable .eomodeld files by sorting appropriate plist
    >> and .eomodeld
    >> dictionaries and sets
    >> * SQL generation and execution that runs using your runtime plugins
    >> * Database Configurations (and UI to create them) on your EOModel.
    >> Allows the definition of multiple connection dictionaries (along with
    >> custom selection of the prototype to use). SQL Generation dialog
    >> allows
    >> you to choose which database config to generate with.
    >> * Per-project "delegates" for SQL generation -- If you declare a
    >> class
    >> named "org.objectstyle.wolips.eomodeler.EOModelProcessor" in your
    >> project with the API:
    >> public void processModel(EOModel _model, NSMutableArray
    >> _entities, NSMutableDictionary _flags);
    >> public void processSQL(StringBuffer _sqlBuffer, EOModel _model,
    >> NSMutableArray _entities, NSMutableDictionary _flags); you can
    >> intercept
    >> and modify the SQL generation process before and after the SQL
    >> string is
    >> created to provide customizations.
    >>
    >> ms
    >>
    >>
    >>
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